Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Meet Balikbayan Foxes: a threat group impersonating the Philippine gov’t. The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. Victims of the group are located in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In June, VMware Carbon Black researchers observed an intensification of the activity associated with a stealthy ransomware group named 8Base. The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2023

Researchers warn of a massive spike in May and June 2023 of the activity associated with the ransomware group named 8Base. VMware Carbon Black researchers observed an intensification of the activity associated with a stealthy ransomware group named 8Base. The 8BASE group claims to be composed of honest pentesters. “We

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Sophos researchers discovered that the group is now leveraging a new technique called “intermittent encryption” to speed up the encryption process. The operators behind LockFile ransomware encrypt alternate blocks of 16 bytes in a document to evade detection. Instead, LockFile encrypts every other 16 bytes of a document.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

The group targeted the organization with phishing attacks aimed at spreading at least three new sophisticated malware strains. FireEye’s Mandiant unit observed two distinct waves of attacks carried out by the cybercrime group in December 2020. In some attacks, the threat actors used weaponized Excel documents as a downloader.

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